Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

Remember that after the war has begun it is too late to improvise a navy.

I have not got much to say to you, because since I have been in California I have felt a good deal more like learning than teaching.

No one can too strongly insist upon the elementary fact that you cannot build the superstructure of public virtue save on private virtue.

There is nothing more foolish, nothing less dignified than to indulge in boastfulness, in self-glorification as to the capacity of our soldi...